The pension system is the elephant in the room.

There's no resting, just a declive.

The conversation is completely different in Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain, for example.

The EU has enacted pretty stupid policies but I don't think the status quo was about to last a lot. Now with the Greenland issue things are about to speed up.

My guess is that, because they shaked hands with conservative leaders in Europe, the White house thinks this is going to benefit them.

I don't think this is going to be the case mid term.

Even if the US does nothing about it, seems that many people has finally realized that Europe has no allies.

This has a lot of implications regarding the Pax Americana, the US/EU financial system, Eurasia, and many others.

I don't see any positive outcome for the west in general. Europe in particular is screwed but besides short-term gains I don't think the US is going to be able to sustain anything but very fragile and transactional alliances, if any.

From my POV trust in the US is already completely broken, and people is pretty worried.

Some of the MAGA people seem to say that that's exactly what they want, to make Europe wake up and take care of itself. Which is a good thing from my POV as Europe as an entity has been doing pretty bad decisions, and some of the european countries too (I think Trump was right about the nordstream).

Now, what I don't think americans understand is that Europe is not the memes they see in the Internet. Europe is not just a bunch of lefties shitting on the US, in fact we consume US products and services, we pour enormous amounts of money into US financial markets, US has plenty of bases here, there's a lot of intel exchange, etc.

I wonder if americans understand what pushing Europe into survival mode means. In, maybe, sooner than 20 years the Pax Americana will be completely over. US will have no allies (Who? Latin America, with only transactional ties due to shared history? Rusia, with a decaying pop and GDP closer to Italy?) and you'll fail to deter China from becoming the global power.

Because I guess nobody in the US believes China will just sit and watch, right?

If it wasn't for China, this would be the world order Dugin et al wanted. If democrats weren't right about Trump being a Putin puppet, they were pretty close.

Honestly, I had to do a lot of workarounds to get comfy. There's annoying stuff I cannot uninstall.

Then things don't turn out as they expected and you have to deal with a dude thinking his engineers are messing with him.

It's just boring.

I moved from my previous job partly because this blind faith in AI, "with Cursor this bug shouldn't be more than 15 minutes". I just got tired of this.

Next job is in consultancy. Don't like moving from product to consultancy, but turns out the client is on the ISP field and don't want to hear anything about AI.

This isn't what I like either. AI has it's use cases and I actually find it useful, as augmentation of my capabilities. But at least is not blind faith.

I made the career change from IT support to software. I'm already 37, and I'm wondering if I took the worst timing ever. I don't like what I'm seeing around. I don't like the interviews I had till I landed this one.

I wonder if I joined the field just when its most big enshitification push arrived. Salaries lowering, completely broken interview process, burned out seniors left and right, no pipeline to us newcomers, etc.

Not sure if this is the place I want to be at 37, but at least I have the life experience to navigate this with a bit of philosophy, because the youngsters I've known along the way are really scared.

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Solar is just another component in the grid. Attach solar to the grid if you want, the trains to the grid too.

Like all the countries with electrified railed do.

Electrifying trains with only solar seems a bit stupid IMO, but who am I compared to tech firms betting on electrification.

This is the new world we live in. Anyone who actually likes coding should seriously look for other venues because this industry is for other type of people now.

I use AI in my job. I went from tolerable (not doing anything fancy) to unbearable.

I'm actually looking to become a council employee with a boring job and code my own stuff, because if this is what I have to do moving forward, I rather go back to non-coding jobs.

This is so annoying. I can't believe they couldn't understand this, and there are many multilingual people.

The combination of battery + screen is incredible.

Now, I don't like MacOS, and it's quite expensive (trying to save for a downpayment with my spanish salary...), and I'm looking for something similar but as personal laptop.

I've searched high and low, and I found that x86 laptops improved a lot, but the screens barely reach 500 nits most of the times, which makes working outdoors a very unpleasant experience.

Does this even exist? I just want something to install linux mint, throw it in my backpack (don't worry about weight) and be able to work it from anywhere.

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